How to protect your list from a “trigger happy” email company shutting you down for no reason
Published: Mon, 05/04/20
There's an Internet marketer I used to mastermind with who once had a huge, thriving email list in a fitness-related niche. He made a decent income from that list (probably more than 95% of other online marketers). And, all was well in his business — with the birds chirping, the pigeons crowing, and the sun shining & stars twinkling in the midst.
Then, one day, his biggest nightmare happened:
His auto-responder company shut him down!
Admittedly he did have unusually high spam complaints, but not as msny as a lot of others in his industry. And it was a case where he was there one day, and the next they dropped his account which he'd had for several years like a bad habit.
Worst part?
He never backed up his lists.
He always knew he could and should back up his lists. But it was just kind of a pain in the gluteus bootyus manually logging in and doing it. (I am the same way — it just is not one of those things I was ever been very good at doing consistently — too tedious).
Thus, his entire business was wiped out.
In a single day.
All because of some nervous nellie employee he'd never meet.
And this was at one of the better email autoresponder companies, not one of the flake-converged ones who de-platform businesses because some idiot complains about them on Twitter or whatever.
It was a huge wake up call for me.
And, if this is a wake up call for you, here’s a one word solution:
Zapier.
Troy Broussard was telling me how there's some really simple ways to use Zapier to not only automate practically all your email automation… but also auto back up/export your list in real time automatically.
As he puts it in his Automation Magic course:
“Imagine every single person that opts into your platform, just immediately getting that same information shuffled over onto a Google Sheet and having that ongoing real-time backup of your data so that you can sleep easy at night and not worry about something happening or being de-platformed or having access to everything that you need. And so that can be very, very useful. But it really goes beyond just backing up.”
More:
If you use affiliates, he also teaches a secret way of using Zapier to get affiliates pumped up and excited to promote your offers for you, and make you both a boatload of the green stuff. In fact, it’s something we will be doing when we get our own affiliate program set up for our Learnistic mobile app platform we are launching in a couple weeks. Yes, Potsie, we will have an affiliate program for eligible paid members of the service (i.e., people who use it) — and it’ll help folks make a nice continuity/subscription-based income to boot… more on that later…
Okay, enough teasing for today.
Here’s the deal:
Troy’s Automation Magic course is on sale for a mere $20 until Wednesday (5/6) at midnight EDT. I cannot imagine anyone with a business going through this and not potentially making 100’s — and maybe even 1000’s — of times that $20 back over time, if you use it, take it seriously, and implement even a few of the “low hanging fruit” methods inside.
But time’s getting short and the cruel deadline is almost upon you.
Here’s my affiliate link:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/automate
Ben Settle
P.S. If you buy the course today, you also get an extremely rare & valuable bonus:
“elBenbo’s Swiperoscope Saga: Part 3”
These videos contain nearly 2-hours of word-for-word analysis of 5 emails in my private swipe file, put under the proverbial “microscope”, that have had the most direct influence on my own email writing.
Here’s a small taste of what’s inside these videos:
* The secret email (originally written way back in 2006 by an online info publishing pioneer) I use each month as a “template” to sell Email Players and other subscription-based offers.
* Exactly what to write in an email when you are not sure how to transition from telling a story to asking for money.
* How a former bank owner-turned affiliate marketer pulled off selling a $997.00 PDF eBook via short, blatant sales pitch emails each day. (And to the tune of selling a dozen or so per month — quite possibly the best business model ever invented!)
* A completely “unorthodox” way to give free information in your emails while also selling at the same time. (Perfect for the “give value!” social media mush cookies and sob sisters scared to death of selling.)
* What you must do if you think you are an internet tough guy or boss lady swearing & cursing in your emails... and want to sail through Google’s aggressive spam filters.
* An intelligent way to “swipe” and not sound like one of these idiot copywriters on Twitter always trying to sound cool or “clever” by ripping off how I word my emails.
* The world’s only official email marketing workout routine: How to burn calories while writing… and do it without moving a single muscle other than your typing fingers!
* A powerful “twist” you can put on your opt-in forms that turns on would-be buyers, while repelling non-buyers who will just complain and clog up your list.
* A slick way men can use to pick up women that also works like a charm to “pick up” more sales in your emails.
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* One of the best examples ever created for how to “bake” infotainment into your emails.
* How my alter ego “elBenbo” got created. (This part probably won’t add anything to your life, but since a handful of people have asked over the years, here you go…)
* The real reason so many 20 & 30-something men are suffering from horrifyingly painful prostate problems & secksual dysfunction. (Nothing at all to do with email writing — but could possibly be a life-changer for younger men who hear it.)
* The Bible prophecy secret for sending blatant sales pitch emails people enjoy reading and buying from.
* A mental trick used by Olympic athletes to prevent tensing up before competing... that can also help eliminate struggling with what to write in your emails.
* How a group of brilliant “Mad Men” copywriters used cringe-worthy typos to make more sales in their advertising.
* A powerful subject line technique (perfected by a direct mail copywriter from the 1970’s for getting junk mail opened) that can radically increase your email engagement.
* A “school yard psychology” trick boys instinctively use to get the attention of girls that can make it hard to resist clicking your email links.
* An admittedly weird way (often used by one of the greatest biz opp email marketers who ever lived) of using the dash key to make plain text emails more engaging and easier to read.
* A one-sentence “crash course” (directly from an old school newspaper bureau chief-turned-world class direct response copywriting coach) about how to word sales copy to seep right into your prospect’s psychology.
* The best kind of questions to ask an indifferent or aloof client when trying to close him over the phone or in person.
* An old Jim Rutz (one of the single highest selling A-list copywriters who ever lived) trick for making it easier for people to keep reading your copy than to stop reading!
* How to create a unique “celebrity” persona for your emails from scratch.
* A brilliant email delivery tip that almost forces Gmail to love delivering your emails.
* A tried-and-true email call to action that is perfect for selling high-ticket products and events.
* A psychological trick (used by two of the most profitable copywriters in history) for drawing people into your email and other sales copy.
* A “dignified” way to use shaming to make your emails far more responsive and profitable.
* The most obvious way ever invented to prevent “ad blindness” to your emails and other advertising.
* And a whole lot more.
These bonus videos contain information about writing emails I have been selfishly keeping to myself for over a decade. But they’re all yours for $20 with Automation Magic if you don't procrastinate like a little mush cookie and act today.
Here’s my affiliate link:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/automate